Grade 5 is a great time for continuing to develop good character traits, leadership skills and study habits. Students realize that they can achieve significantly through cooperative work with diverse groups of peers. Students are exposed to looking at the world around them and taking a closer look at the development of Canada.

Religion:

The Profession of Faith:

Describe the Church as the community of God’s people guided by the power of the Holy Spirit

Identify the traits of Christian community as exemplified by the early Church

Describe the mass as the Paschal Mystery based on Jesus’ Life, Death and Resurrection

Provide reasons for being catholic

Recognize the basic Spiritual needs for individuals to grow in their faith

Demonstrate the concept of stewardship within the Church

Compare various denominations within the Christian world and recognize common beliefs in Jesus Christ

Celebration of the Christian Mystery:

Recognize the Sacraments as the primary expression of catholic life

Celebrate the feast days of significant Saints during the liturgical year and explain why they matter in the life of a Catholic

Describe the significance of liturgical vestments and sacramental in the Mass

Explain the importance of “full, active and conscious participation” in the Mass as described in the CISVA Liturgical Guidelines

Life in Christ:

Compare and contrast how priests, religious, married and single people respond to their call to holiness

Relate the life of Jesus to the vocation of the priest hood

Show why the life of a Saint is applicable today

Justify why a choice is moral or immoral, just or unjust

Identify ways in which media can positively or negatively influence the development of faith and morals

Relate how the charisms of the Christian community are for the service of the Church

Defend the statement that “Disabilities can bring blessings”

Demonstrate how the Church in Canada has been influenced by immigrant cultures

Reflect on the role they can play in the mission work of the Church

Christian Prayer:

Create a classroom prayer service using the basic elements

Meditate on how the Lord’s Passion, and Resurrection defines our Christian faith

Meditate on and apply relevant New Testament passages to daily life

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the following prayers: Prayer for Vocations, Prayer to the Holy Spirit, Prayer for Reverence for Life

Language Arts:

Oral Language:

Sharing and explaining ideas and viewpoints

Interpreting the speaker’s message (verbal and nonverbal)

Considering audience when presenting

Recognizing literary devices

Reading and Viewing:

Making personal connections to texts

Comparing ideas and information in texts

Previewing texts and reading to locate information

Constructing meaning using genre and form

Writing and Representing:

Writing for a variety of audiences and purposes

Analysing thinking by expressing opinions and alternatives

Accessing and using multiple sources of information

Using variation in sentence construction

Social Studies:

Natural resources continue to shape the economy and identify of different regions of e

Immigration and multiculturalism continue to shape Canadian society and identity

Canadian institutions and government reflect the challenge of our reginal diversity

Science:

Multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive and interact within their environment

Solutions are homogeneous

Machines are devices that transfer force and energy

Earth materials change as they move through the rock cycle and can be used as natural resources

Math:

Numbers describe quantities that can be represented by equivalent fractions

Computational fluency and flexibility with numbers extend to operations with larger (multi-digit) numbers

Identified regularities in number patters can be expresses in tables

Closed shapes have area and perimeter that can be described, measured, and compared

Data represented in graphs can be used to show many-to-one correspondence